An Introduction to the Prose and Poetical Works of John Milton / Comprising All the Autobiographic Passages in His Works, the More Explicit Presentations of His Ideas of True Liberty.

by John Milton

P. [63]. paneguries: same as panegyrics.

P. [64]. Siren daughters: the Muses, daughters of Memory or Mnemosyne.

P. [65]. gentle apprehension: a refined faculty of conception or perception.

Apology for Smectymnuus

P. [66]. Solon: Athenian statesman and lawgiver, about 638-558 B.C. 'According to Suidas it was a law of Solon that he who stood neuter in any public sedition, should be declared ἄτιμος, infamous.'

P. [66]. doubted: hesitated; or, perhaps, in the sense of feared.

P. [66]. most nominated: most frequently named, most prominent.

P. [66], [67]. my certain account: the account which I shall certainly have to render.

P. [67]. tired out almost a whole youth: see the extract given from 'The Reason of Church Government urged against Prelaty.'

P. [67]. this modest confuter: Dr. Joseph Hall, Bishop of Exeter, afterward of Norwich; the reference is to his 'Modest Confutation' of Milton's 'Animadversions.'